{"id":8763,"date":"2019-09-15T18:31:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T18:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=8763"},"modified":"2026-07-05T17:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T17:35:11","slug":"prez-ramaphosa-dispatches-special-envoys-to-ghana-and-six-other-african-countries-after-being-booed-at-mugabes-burial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2019\/09\/15\/prez-ramaphosa-dispatches-special-envoys-to-ghana-and-six-other-african-countries-after-being-booed-at-mugabes-burial\/","title":{"rendered":"Prez Ramaphosa Dispatches Special Envoys To Ghana And Six Other African Countries After Being Booed At Mugabe&#8217;s Burial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"peace_content_text_1\">A special envoy made up of three officials have\u00a0been dispatched by President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa to some seven African countries after he was booed at former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe&#8217;s funeral in Harare on Saturday September 14.<\/p>\n<p>The special envoy made up of former minister Jeff Radebe, Ambassador Kingsley Mmabolo and Khulu Mbatha, a veteran leader of the ruling African National Congress\u00a0will be visiting\u00a0Nigeria, Niger, Ghana, Senegal, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia to deliver a message of solidarity and also\u00a0brief each country&#8217;s government on\u00a0steps South Africa is taking to end the xenophobic attacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe special envoys will brief governments in the identified African countries about the steps that the South African government is taking to bring a stop to the attacks and to hold the perpetrators to account,\u201d the statement from South Africa&#8217;s presidency read.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the South African President was booed\u00a0as he addressed mourners at Robert Mugabe\u2019s state funeral service at the National Sports Stadium in Zimbabwe&#8217;s\u00a0capital Harare. He\u00a0apologised on behalf of South Africans but was told by angry Zimbabweans that an apology is not enough.\u00a0Zimbabweans told him that\u00a0they want his government to arrest those behind the attack and ensure the protection of their foreign nationals.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special envoy made up of three officials have\u00a0been dispatched by President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa to some seven African countries after he was booed at former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe&#8217;s funeral in Harare on Saturday September 14. The special envoy made up of former minister Jeff Radebe, Ambassador Kingsley Mmabolo and Khulu Mbatha, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":7486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[461,12],"tags":[1648,4899,8607,7994,9678,6975,5304,11394,11583,596,6693,246,913,1751,7428,7896,192,2264,1142,1302,1390,434,7574,3805,4497,1748,1013,1145,1749,244,1213,1898,1750,3954,6137,1574,5922],"class_list":["post-8763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-world-news","tag-africa","tag-african","tag-african-countries","tag-africans","tag-apology","tag-arrest","tag-attack","tag-attacks","tag-capital","tag-congo","tag-congress","tag-cyril-ramaphosa","tag-democratic","tag-the-democratic-republic-of-congo","tag-envoys","tag-funeral","tag-ghana","tag-government","tag-harare","tag-mugabe","tag-niger","tag-nigeria","tag-presidency","tag-president","tag-president-cyril-ramaphosa","tag-president-of-south-africa-cyril-ramaphosa","tag-ramaphosa","tag-robert-mugabe","tag-senegal","tag-south-africa","tag-south-african","tag-special-envoy","tag-tanzania","tag-will","tag-zambia","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwean"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50997,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8763\/revisions\/50997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}